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Theory & Event
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Introduction
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  Abstract: Summer 2023 presented us with the stunning fact of a federal criminal indictment of a former American president alongside consequential questions of venue and location. Prosecutors filled our news feed with images of Mar-a-Lago ballrooms, bathrooms, and bedrooms, piled with boxes of White House documents that Donald Trump had appropriated and stashed in his country club. Legal analysts struggled to apply questions of state jurisdiction to the alleged crimes and their setting, committed in spaces both public and personal, private and shared.This July issue of Theory & Event is concerned with the politics of location as well, albeit on a different register. The articles here explore sites of the political and their ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
Killed in the USA: Femicide as State-Authorized Violence
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  Abstract: Lethal racist violence is a definitive feature of the United States' past and present. We see it, hear it, watch it, tweet about it every day, everywhere. It is recorded on our phones, computers, and in our minds. America also has a femicide1 problem: i.e., the murder of women enabled by gendered power relations that are socially approved and institutionally endorsed. Although femicide is not as prominent in the public and scholarly debates, over 1,500 women are killed annually in the US "because they are women."2 How can we explain such acts of violence in a liberal democratic context where the state builds its legitimacy upon the premise that it protects citizens' rights and lives'3 Answering this question ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
The Combat Syllabus: Life, Death, and Books
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  Abstract: Analyzing a key cultural-politico component by re-reading the assigned literature helps us understand how these actors with simultaneously limited but ultimate authority are used, with implications for both theory and praxis. My argument, in the simplest terms, runs thusly: (1) that what we read (or otherwise culturally consume) influences us, and while there is no need to re-rehash this obvious point here—suffice it to say that influence varies in intensity. I am not arguing that any given book changes in any permanent way one's Weltanschauung. However, and more importantly for my argument, (2) the assigning and reading of combat texts signals the intent of a power structure to influence its cadre of junior ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
Emancipation by Relay: The Transmission of Political Acts in Freud, James,
and Kant
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  Abstract: This essay is concerned with the transmission of political acts, or how the transformative potential of an act can be preserved, sustained, and relayed: not only over time, but across national and geographic boundaries.David Scott has taken up a related problem in Conscripts of Modernity, questioning the staying power of great revolutionary programs, and whether they can retain their vitality and promise over time. In a critical reading of C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins, he questions James's confidence in the ability of this great slave uprising to function as a model for international Marxism and for Black Caribbean emancipation in particular. For Scott, the emancipatory program James is attempting to isolate ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
Neoliberalism and the Innovation/Reproduction Binary
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  Abstract: As we confront an unprecedented public health, social and economic crisis brought about by COVID-19, our hopes are pinned on scientific innovation and, in particular, potential treatments and vaccines….Patents, and IP more generally, are the main reason there is such a strong innovation base to work from to find solutions.The epigraph is from the director general of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), the primary organization that represents the pharmaceutical industry at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Thomas Cueni's view here reflects that of the industry throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: innovations will provide the solution to the pandemic, and intellectual ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
Introduction: Locations of Politics
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  Abstract: In this symposium, we present and think about crises as locations from which to interrogate commonplace approaches to the political. Our goal is to offer case studies in cultivating what Antonio Vázquez-Arroyo calls "political literacy and responsibility," to uncover the Real which capitalist realism suppresses.1 The planet, the border, the safe space, the university—these are just a few of the locations of crisis today that can dislocate entrenched methodological and ideological reflexes in contemporary theory, and open onto a productive radical critique of the present. The papers collected here present crises as locations where lines of inclusion and exclusion are (re)drawn, and meanings and identities are ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
Binding Politics: Political Space, Responsibilities, and the New-Old
Orders
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  Abstract: I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New.It hobbled up on new crutches which no one had ever seen before and stank of new smells of decay which no one had ever smelt before.A stone rolled over as if it were the newest invention and the screams of the Gorillas drumming on their chests set up as if it were the newest composition.Everywhere empty graves lay open as the New advanced on the Capital.Roundabout stood such as inspired terror, shouting: "Here comes the New, it's all new, salute the New, be new like us!" And those who heard, heard nothing but their shouts, but those who saw, saw such as were not shouting.So the Old strode in disguised as the New, but it brought the New with it ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
Climate Change and the Irrational Society
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  Abstract: In his essay on progress, Theodor Adorno remarks on the incongruity between society's unprecedented capacity to universally meet its members' needs and the social relations that guarantee the continuance of suffering. "The forms of humanity's own global social constitution threaten its life," he writes. "Whether there will be further want and oppression—which are the same thing—will be decided solely by the avoidance of catastrophe through the rational establishment of the whole society as humanity."1 While this essay (and Adorno's work more broadly) is well-known for its critique of positive narratives of Enlightenment and progress, he nevertheless maintains the ideal of a rational organization of society.2 In ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
Topolitics of the Safe Space
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  Abstract: For Lysie, co-founder of Queer ParisThis essay takes up the questions posed by a name, or rather a word that came to me semi-spontaneously in response to the theme of "locations of politics." That word is "safe." In the same way Derrida ponders over the occurrences and recurrences of the word "religion" in "Faith and Knowledge," I'm interested in the "unexpected repetition" and newly regular appearance of the word "safe" in Globish and in Franglais, for instance, in the expression "safe space."2 This formula has taken on a specific meaning over the last fifteen years or so in the Western world. It quite probably derives from the old lexicalized formula "safe haven"—designating a sanctuary where undocumented ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
Atmospheric Pedagogies: Everyday Ethnographies of the (Post) Pandemic
Classroom
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  Abstract: COVID-19 is "a force that redefines boundaries and reconfigures our experience, interpretation, and understanding of the outside world."1 The virus ruptured and reordered large and small geographies with such force and suddenness that the assumed naturalness of previous everyday worlds was called into question. For two years, the world was (and in many ways, still is) in the grip of a virus that reorganized societal structures from the mundane to the large and abstract. Borders and boundaries that include and exclude bodies, distinguish between inside and outside, separate home from work, private from public, and mark the domains of the individual and the collective, were reified, redrawn and reinvented. New ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
Democratic Nonconformity: Review of Jennie Ikuta's Contesting Conformity
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  Abstract: Jennie Ikuta's Contesting Conformity is a momentous and welcome challenge to the "unreflective valorization of nonconformity" in American public imagination. It argues that "while nonconformity is valuable to democracy, it is not necessarily democratic" (2). Ikuta's excellent book directs our attention to this ambivalent relationship between nonconformity and democracy—an ambivalence that is overlooked or ignored because "we conform to the value of conformity" (11). As Ikuta demonstrates (1–7), American public rhetoric is ripe with expressions of nonconformity: it is celebrated as an entrepreneurial-innovative spirit (e.g., Apple's motto "think different"), as a pedagogical objective (e.g., "think for yourself") ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
Thinking in Viral Times
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  Abstract: A strange thing happened to time during the pandemic. Days and weeks limped along, while years compressed and compacted into one another. The cycles of lockdowns, waves of variants, vaccine rollouts, and various preventive measures serve as markers of time more so than dates on a calendar. "I can't remember when we last saw each other, but I do remember showing my vaccine certificate at the restaurant. When were we required to do that' Was it late '21 or early '22'"Time also warped for those in the academy. Research projects and fieldtrips were paused, indefinitely. Teaching moved to online with timeless pre-recorded lectures and seminars at various hours to accommodate student and staff caring roles. Yet there was ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
Seeing Like an Anarchist
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  Abstract: James Martel has made important inroads into new ways of understanding anarchism. We have seen this in his previous work on Walter Benjamin, in which he deploys concepts like "divine violence"1 and the "one and only law" (the Second Commandment against idolatry)2 to depose the foundations of sovereignty and legal authority. In his new book, Anarchist Prophets, Martel applies a similar kind of politico-theological approach to developing a distinctly anarchist vision of social relations. Here, anarchism is treated not so much as a distinct political ideology—there is no discussion of the anarchist tradition as such—but rather as a certain way of seeing the world: one without arché or the principle of authority. And ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00
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  Abstract: Antonio Y. Vázquez Arroyo is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power (Columbia University Press, 2016). His writing has appeared in Constellations, Contemporary Political Theory, Historia y Sociedad, New Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Political Theory, Polity, Postcolonial Studies, Radical Philosophy and Theory & Event.Sumru Atuk is Assistant Professor of Politics at Ithaca College, where she teaches political theory, feminist theory, and public policy. Her interdisciplinary and inter-subfield work draws upon theories and methodologies of political science, feminist ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-07-20T00:00:00-05:00